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Papal visits are pastoral visits - that is, they are concerned with the encouraging and healing of a Pope's flock, not the formation of policy. And yet a pastoral statement as affecting as this one is something of a promissory note for subsequent action. At a TIME magazine luncheon for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Pope Said — and Didn't Say | 4/20/2008 | See Source »

But perhaps the most notable comfort that this cerebral pontiff offered his flock is his ever more pastoral persona. Entering a morning mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Benedict beamed as several thousand priests and nuns welcomed him with thunderous applause. As the mass ended, he spoke off-the-cuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope Benedict Yearning to Heal His Flock | 4/19/2008 | See Source »

There is certainly a sense of wan amusement in watching America’s sharpest young minds lining up scores-deep in order to secure a minute of monitored levitation. Now and then a muddling passerby will accidentally wander into the swing’s ambit and, after a tussle...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Notes On A Tire Swing | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

The American visit, however, poses an unprecedented pastoral challenge for the 80-year-old pontiff. Benedict's is the first papal trip to the United States since the priest sex abuse crisis erupted in 2001. It is a controversy that has left much of the American laity bitterly disillusioned with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Sex Abuse Challenge | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

Of course, for Benedict to win over American Catholics, responding to the crisis is just a start. Two open-air masses, on April 17 at the Washington Nationals' baseball stadium and on April 20 at New York's Yankee Stadium will show the shy Pope is improving on the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Sex Abuse Challenge | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

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